In 1951, he wrote On the Road, which was finally published in 1957. On the Road was a stylistic breakthrough for Kerouac who had developed a theory of writing he called, spontaneous prose. ... Kerouac's On the Road was a hit all over America, along with his trends and styles. ... On the Road told of his confessions, and conversations of life and truths. ... Jack Kerouac's On the Road was the start of a new culture of children embracing. .Jack Kerouac was a man of many achievements. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To the Beats the only solution to a life of domestic stagnation was to pack up and let life lead you down one winding road after another. ... No other Beat poet understood that concept as well as Jack Kerouac. "Jack Kerouac single handedly created the beat generation. ... Kerouac was a Roman Catholic with a strong fascination with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. ... Kerouac was particularly interested in mastering the four noble truths. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Thing about the Beats One of the novels that has caused a great impact since it was written until now is the modern classic On the Road, the second novel of one of the most controversial writers of his time Jack Kerouac. ... Kerouac in On the Road tails his travels across America that took him seven years, he traveled by bus, hitchhiking and in his friends car. ... I was getting the bug myself" (Kerouac, 72). ... The review by Amazon explains it in a better way: "Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On the Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To the Beats the only solution to a life of domestic stagnation was to pack up and let life lead you down one winding road after another. ... No other Beat poet understood that concept as well as Jack Kerouac. "Jack Kerouac single handedly created the beat generation. ... Kerouac was a Roman Catholic with a strong fascination with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. ... Kerouac was particularly interested in mastering the four noble truths. ...

• Word Count: 1018
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Ginsberg invited Snyder, along with many other influential members of the counterculture (such as McClure, Whalen, Ginsberg, and Kerouac) to read his poetry in a San Francisco club. ... There was a very intimate relationship developed between Snyder and Kerouac. ... One day Snyder said to Kerouac "real Buddhists are able to walk around the countryside (Snyder on Kerouac)-. Kerouac agreed and they went on one final trip of the season out into the mountains. ... He even offers the radical idea of legalizing hitch-hiking in "Four Changes-, suggesting that there be hitch-hiking stations on the...

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• Grade Level: High School

Moreover, he is dreaming of an idea and concept-what Times Square represents to him-more than the stones in the middle of the road. ... Just as the trumpeter stands "at dawn" and "blow[s] a silver chorus to the buildings" so could Ginsberg invisibly shout his prose unto the world, like Kerouac in "MacDougal Street Blues." ... That section alone is eerie, for literature knows that these Beats-Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs-grew as the fathers of deeper thinking, and verbose social critique. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It describes how even though the original beats were few in number, many "movements" in literary history often happened when a cluster of a few writers, tied together by time more than space, uncovered a new path or road of writing style and content. ... Gary Snyder was one of the original Beat poets, and along with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Alan Watts helped to shape modern poetry and to fuel the cultural revolution of the 1960's. ... The other poets were Phillip Lamantia, Mike McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Phil Whalen, and Jack Kerouac who decided not to read. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The initial pioneers of the movement were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. ... Of these works, two would reach the greatest commercial success and epitomize the works of the beats: On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac's piece, a semi-autobiographical tale, depicting the travels and interactions of Kerouac and his friends. ... It includes anecdote about buses and hitchhiking which were all parallels of Kerouac's experiences. ... (Kerouac, On the Road) On the Road would define a generation but Ginsberg's Howl would change ...

• Word Count: 4095
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School